The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

The idea that I had anything to do with speaking about Islam or about the Muslim world was just absurd to my family. ... I hadn't been to the mosque in like 10 years.

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.